Re: [PATCHES] Avahi support for Postgresql

Am Montag, den 25.02.2008, 15:05 +0100 schrieb Peter Eisentraut:
> Am Dienstag, 27. November 2007 schrieb Mathias Hasselmann:
> > Postmaster already has code to announce its services via DNS-SD
> > (ZeroConf) by using Apple's Bonjour API. This series of patches
> > implements that capability on top of the Avahi library[1] which
> > is free software, available for a wider variety of platforms.
>
> Is there a reason we couldn't use the Bonjour compatibility layer offered by
> Avahi to keep the code differences to a minimum?

1) The Avahi's compatibility layer doesn't implement the now deprecated
function DNSServiceRegistrationCreate().

2) Unless DNSServiceRegistrationCreate() installs a lot of black magic,
the Bonjour code in postmaster.c has very poor error handling: There
seem to be no attempts made to handle name collisions (unless Bonjour
does this automatically, of course).

Ciao,
Mathias
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